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as the fibers are not utilized in this country. Some of them are 

 described in the bulletins of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and in Spoil's 

 Encyclopaedia, while many are noted in special reports and bulletins 

 that are not readily available to the general public, so that special ref- 

 erence will not be made to them. The Department will always be glad 

 to answer any questions regarding this phase of the fiber subject, as 

 far as possible, upon application for information by letter, and will feel 

 under obligations to correspondents who will send accounts of new 

 machines, confidentially or otherwise. 



